Pot shop customers line up

The first legal sale of pot took place on Tuesday at stores across the state.

Cale Holdsworth, of Abeline, Kan., holds up his purchase after being the first in line to buy legal recreational marijuana at Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash. Holdsworth had been in line since 4:00 a.m. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Kevin Nelson, of Bellingham, Wash., holds a sign that reads "Drug War Ends Here," outside Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash. on the first day of legal pot sales in the state. Nelson says he is a long-time activist opposing drug laws, particularly those targeting marijuana users, and he he feels the legalization of marijuana will lead to less crowded jails and be less of a burden on the court system. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

John Evich, right, an investor in the Top Shelf Cannabis store, talks to customers waiting in line outside the store, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash., on the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales in the state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Julian Rodriguez, of Everson, Wash., holds his two-gram packet of recreational marijuana outside Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash., on the first day of legal sales in the state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

A customer, who declined to give his name, sniffs a strain of recreational marijuana at Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash., during the first half-hour of legal sales in the states. Customers cannot be given samples, but are allowed to use "sniff jars" to help make their purchasing decisions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Customers on the left and sales clerks on the right pass "sniff jars" back and forth on a glass countertop as they discuss different strains of recreational marijuana at Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash., on the first day of legal sales in the state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Sam Pyle, left, inspects a "sniff jar" containing a sample of recreational marijuana at Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash., on the first day of legal sales in the state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Cannabis City owner James Lathrop, right, playfully wraps up first-in-line customer Deb Greene in "police" tape as Jeremy Cooper looks on before the opening on the first day that sales of recreational pot is legal Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Seattle. Washington on Tuesday became the second state to allow people to buy marijuana legally in the U.S. without a doctor's note, as eager customers who lined up outside stores made their purchases and savored the moment. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The price of two grams of a strain of marijuana named "Sweet Lafayette," is displayed at Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash., on the first day of legal sales of recreational marijuana in the state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

A man waiting in line to buy recreational marijuana displays his pot-leaf tattoo oustside of Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash., on the first day of legal sales in the state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)